Quotes About Self-awareness

Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.

I don't want to be mistaken for anyone?so I mustn't mistake myself.

He who fights monster should beware, lest he become a monster himself

Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage - his name is self; he dwells in your body, he is your body. There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom.

Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings, who think themselves good because they have crippled paws!

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.—Nietzsche.

Knowing one's 'individuality'. - We are too prone to forget that in the eyes of people who are seeing us for the first time we are something quite different from what we consider ourselves to be: usually we are nothing more than a single individual trait which leaps to the eye and determines the whole impression that we make.

One must learn to love oneself- thus do I teach- with a wholesome and healthy love: that one may endure to be with oneself, and not go roving about.

Physician, heal thyself: then wilt thou also heal thy patient. Let it be his best cure to see with his eyes him who maketh himself whole.

A man's stomach is the reason he does not easily take himself for a God.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

He who considers more deeply knows that, whatever his acts and judgements may be, he is always wrong.

An instinct is weakened when it rationalises itself: for by rationalising itself it weakens itself.

Debemos guardarnos de la confusión en que por contiguity [contiguidad] psicológica, para decirlo igual que los ingleses, muy fácilmente cae un artista: la de creer que él mismo es aquello que él puede representar, concebir, expresar. En realidad ocurre que, si él lo fuera, no lo podría en absoluto representar, concebir, expresar.

One does not attack a person merely to hurt and conquer him, but perhaps merely to become conscious of one's own strength.

To 'want' something, to 'strive' after something to have an 'aim' or a 'wish' in my mind — I know none of this from experience. Even at this moment I look out upon my future — a distant future! as upon a calm sea: no sigh of longing makes a ripple on its surface. I have not the slightest wish that anything should be otherwise than it is: I do not want myself different than I am. But in this matter I have always been the same. I have never had a desire.

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The minds of others I know well; But who I am I cannot tell

Battle not with monsters lest you become a monster and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you

What language will such a spirit speak when it talks to itself alone?

Socrate considérait que c'est un mal qui n'est pas loin de la folie, de s'imaginer que l'on possède une vertu, alors qu'on ne la possède pas. Certes, une pareille illusion est plus dangereuse que l'illusion contraire qui consiste à croire que l'on souffre d'un défaut, d'un vice. Deuxième Considération intempestive, ch. 6

When he judged himself, that was his supreme moment.

Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans!

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster